Beer Cheese Soup
By John Gorman
Love of Sports Correspondent
One of the most often underutilized pleasant surprises in this world is how versatile and spectacular beer can be as a cooking ingredient.
Beers of all colors and densities can be added to a variety of sauces, marinades and batters to create something light, refreshing and flavorful.
Today, we present to you instructions for making our own twist of a Midwest classic: beer cheese soup. It’s perfect for those cold tailgating days or for just laying about the house. And if we know anything today, we know football Sundays are days for laying about the house.
(*Holds warm towel to throbbing head*).
WHAT YOU NEED
* 1 vidalia or sweet onion - minced
* 1 tsp celery salt
* 4 cloves garlic - minced (that may be a lot for some of you non-Italians out there)
* 3 tsp Tabasco
* 1/4 teaspoon Ancho Chili Powder
* 1 tsp fresh ground pepper
* 3 cups chicken broth
* 1 bottle Labatt Blue (Miller Lite, Stella Artois, Molson Canadian and Original Coors also work well, but Blue works best)
* 1/3 cup butter
* 1/3 cup flour
* 4 cups half and half or heavy cream
* 6 cups Velveeta - cut into small cubes
* 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
* 2 tsp mustard seed
* 1 bag frozen broccoli - the smaller the cut, the better
* popcorn (seriously)
WHAT YOU DO
1. Mix onion and garlic in a large saucepan over medium heat.
2. Add Tabasco, Ancho Chili Powder, celery salt and pepper. Keep mixing.
3. Add broccoli, chicken broth and beer; simmer for about 12 minutes.
4. Take the large saucepan off the burner.
5. Melt butter in large soup pot on medium-high heat.
**PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: DO NOT MESS UP STEPS 6 or 7, OR YOU WILL RUIN THE SOUP!**
6. Whisk in flour, keep whisking until the flour is light brown, (should be three minutes).
7. Very slowly pour the cream into the soup pot, don’t stop whisking until it’s evenly thickened.
8. Set burner to LOW and stir in the Velveeta.
9. Pour beer concoction into cheese mess. Add mustard seed and Worcestershire sauce. Add more Tabasco!
10. Simmer for 10 minutes. Top with popcorn.
11. Drink the rest of your beer. You earned it soldier.
To be honest, we have no idea how many this serves, because we usually eat it all. Of course, we’ve also been known to polish off whole pizzas and an entire tub of cookie dough. That’s what us gluttonous slobs do.
For those of you who have the courage to try it, let us know how it turned out for you!
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